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Miss Boone has 1,297 gold stickers. She wants to give the same number of stickers to each of her 9 students. If she gives away as many stickers as she can, how many stickers will be left over?

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Answered by GPT-4o mini
To find out how many stickers Miss Boone has left after giving the same number to each of her 9 students, we need to divide the total number of stickers she has by the number of students and find the remainder.

We start with the total number of stickers:

\[
1297
\]

Next, we divide by the number of students:

\[
1297 \div 9
\]

Calculating this division:

1. First, we determine how many times 9 fits into 1297. We can accomplish this by performing the division:

\[
1297 \div 9 \approx 144.1111 \quad \text{(we are only interested in the whole number part)}
\]

Therefore, 9 fits into 1297 a total of 144 full times.

2. Now, we multiply 144 by 9 to find out how many stickers are given away:

\[
144 \times 9 = 1296
\]

3. Now we subtract the number of stickers given away from the total number of stickers to find the leftovers:

\[
1297 - 1296 = 1
\]

Thus, the number of stickers that will be left over is

\[
\boxed{1}
\]

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